Trump, Hillary both called embarrassment to nation

Trump’s railing against Hillary over Benghazi and her misuse of her server that contained classified information are indeed grounds for jailing her. 

On the other hand, the Trump University scandal that has his ex-employees saying the whole thing was a rip-off — along with his rabble-rousing rhetoric — should be grounds for his becoming Hillary’s cellmate!  

They’re both an embarrassment to this nation! What to do, what to do??

Drug use, cost to society, need to be election issues

The average cost for lifetime care and treatment of an individual with fetal alcohol syndrome is nearly $2 million.  

Drug use, and the cost to society it brings, needs to be talked about more in elections.  

On the national level, drugs and alcohol cost the nation $417 billion dollars annually – hardly a surprising statistic, and one that is easy to dismiss in the grand scheme of government expenditures and massive government debt.

But in North Carolina alone almost 10 percent of the population has an addiction problem, and this costs the taxpayers $12.4 billion yearly. 

The Neil Dobbins Detoxification Center, based in Asheville, runs up a tab of over $600,000 treating addition annually.

The Julian F. Keith alcohol and substance abuse treatment center used nearly $1.5 million in taxpayer money in 2013.  

In Buncombe County alone, almost 20 DUI arrests are made every single day.  Our governor has already passed up a $10 billion no-strings-attached offer from the federal government for Medicaid.

This money would have helped individuals unable to afford treatment for addiction, and little else is being done to address the massive and growing issue of addiction.

Anti-cop mentality sparks serious consequences

 In 2015, murders in the United State rose an average of 17 percent in the nation’s 50 largest cities. 

Milwaukee had an increase of 72 percent; Cleveland, 90 percent; Nashville, 83 percent; Washington 54 percent; Minneapolis. 61 percent; and Chicago, 80 percent. 

The overwhelming majority of victims were black. But the perpetrators were not (as Obama and “Black Lives Matter” would have you believe) white policemen. 

 The overwhelming majority of perpetrators were also black.

Blacks make up 23 percent of New York City’s population, but they commit 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crime. 

Whites are 33 percent of the city’s population, but they commit fewer than two percent of all shootings, four percent of all robberies, and five percent of all violent crime.

That means that virtually every time the police in New York are called out on a gun crime, they are being summoned to minority neighborhoods looking for minority suspects.

The number of police officers killed in shootings more than doubled in the first three months of 2016. Heather MacDonald, who holds a doctor in law degree from Stanford Law School, says that officers are at much greater risk from blacks than unarmed blacks are from the police. She says that an officer’s chance of getting killed by a black has become 18 times higher than the chance of an unarmed black getting killed by a cop. 

In August 2015, an officer in Birmingham, Ala., was beaten unconscious by a convicted felon after a car stop. The suspect had grabbed  the officer’s gun, but the officer hesitated to use force against him for fear of being charged with racism. 

Criminologist Greg Ridgeway has found that black officers in the NYPD were three times more likely to fire their weapons at a shooting scene than non-black officers present.

 Unfortunately, when officers hold back in high crime neighborhoods for fear of being labeled racists, the number of crimes will increase there. 

MacDonald says that the anti-cop ideology is held not only by members of “Black Lives Matter” but is embraced at the highest reaches of the establishment: by President Obama, by his attorney general, by college presidents, by foundation heads, and by the press.

 Obama’s interference in the investigation of crimes related to blacks is unprecedented among America’s presidents. 

Obama with Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson on his coat tails were quick to go to any shooting where a case might be made of racism against law enforcement.

 As a consequence of Obama’s interference in the Ferguson case, Michael Brown is still regarded as a martyr by the left or uninformed, although the U. S. Justice Department has solidly disproven the lie that Michael Brown was a peaceful citizen shot in cold blood by the police while he was trying to surrender.